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[HTC Excalibur] cheystar:
noob here :) Everything about this rom is great except I can't make calls I can only recieved calls. i rebooted the phone and did a hard reset still no luck. please any suggestions??

I found out what was going on. I had to go to phone>call options and change current outgoing line to 1 before it was on 2.
[HTC Excalibur] atupeck:
So far I love the EnergyROM, I think its a great work in progress. The bugs I'm having on my S620 are:

Weather cannot add Orlando, when I click on it it just goes back to the home screen.

IE cannot set home page, (I guess because its IE5?)

The WIFI radio continues to drop right after connecting. (Could be my phone)

Other than those, I love it!
[HTC Excalibur] baritono:
Sync with Vista

Thanks again for an updated version of this beautiful ROM. Unfortunately, it remains impossible to sync with Vista. I have tried different roms, before flashing this newest version. I have zero problems with other 6.1 roms, NRG, Kavana, stock T-mobile, etc. The problem remains the same: If the "enable network functionality" is checked in the other 6.1 roms, there is no way I can sync with Vista-and I know I am not alone here. If that is unchecked, in Connections-PC to USB, then everything works perfectly. But there is not such setting in this Rom. I understand what NRG wrote in a previous post, that it is registry "controlled" for a Vista sync, (and that he updated the previous version of Energy Rom to be able to sync with Vista), but I still have no success. I have tried everything that was suggested by others in this forum: Be patient (!!!), leave Outlook running, turn off firewall, use a different USB port, etc. I am not sure why this is happening. I do thank you though for all your efforts to create a unique Rom for the Excalibur. Happy holiday and God bless!

PS. When I try to sync with Energy Rom it behaves exactly like all other 6.1 Roms when the "enable advanced network functionality" is checked; it keeps on trying to connect until it gives up.
[HTC Excalibur] kash2k7:
HOW CAN I DO A HardSPL'd PLZ EXPLAIN SO I CAN FLASH THIS ROM THKS N REMEBER MY FONE CANNOT SYNC VIA USB ONLY BY BLUETOOTH
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Can anyone post whether this version has Resco Explorer?
[HTC Excalibur] atupeck:
It does not.
[HTC Excalibur] atupeck:
Try and App unlock your phone, that would be the best way to get around the 270 Error and try again with the download, it was corrupted my first download too.

This thread and download the phone unlocking tools.

(In the first post)
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
ok updated to this rom everything is great but ,in start up it has 22,7mb ram, but when i put the sd card it goes to 15mb ram, if i take out the sd ram goes to 22,7mb again, don't know why this is happening, anybody else have this problem????
[HTC Excalibur] XJeFX:
yep, memory leak still there... start up with 20mb... then free ram and rise till 22mb... open a cople of apps, then closed them and 12mb available :confused:

take out the sd and goes to 20mb available memory... going back to another rom.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Dont let the door kick you in the ass... Thanks for the constructive feedback.:rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Well I guess it's time to end development on this as I have no other ideas to make this eat less RAM. It's just NOT possible. The 21040 and 21048 SYS's were designed for devices that haven't even come out on the market yet, so they're brand new and designed to run on 288 MB RAM devices.

I personally believe 20-23 megs of RAM is PLENTY enough to use your phone. I don't know what else you guys want from me.... I use my Dash everyday and even if I had 10, I'd still be okay.. Run Celetask.. free some memory.. go on with my life. Reboot.. free some memory.. go on with my life.

Oh well. I tried... Guess Kavana is still the best. LOL

Bye....
[HTC Excalibur] rovega:
Keep the work....

Nice ROMS, Fast like a thunder.

i Have like 6 hours using this new rom; work like a charm, i sync with windows 7, outloook 2007, all works ok... The memory leak its true.... but i give normal use to the pphone and works ok, all software all functions.... keep the great work... dont leave this ROM, the memory leak dont affect the use of the phone... simply all works ok. nice performances... i dont need to reboot, WIFI ok, bluetooth sync ok...
[HTC Excalibur] atupeck:
I completely agree, NRG don't leave this ROM, its great, looks GREAT. I love it. I'm keeping the ROM regardless, but if you keep working on it, it will be MUCH better.

(Then only thing I miss is the new IE in it. Just throwin that out there.)
[HTC Excalibur] joeskull:
I don't think you should do that (abandon this project).

You're doing a great job! People are too demanding, you can't please everyone and You're absolutely right about the amount of available memory. When I was under stock 6.0 rom, I was happy when I got 18 Mb. And there was no app that I could'nt run. So, if my words have some meaning, keep doing the good work. And you demanding people, go scratch yourselves and try to use oxios free memory. It helps a lot with memory leaks.

Regards
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
Thank NRGZ28 for this awesome ROM. Everything work fine after fleshing this new update. The memory leak is not a problem, as I can always close down whatever app I don't need, and then reboot. Hope to see more from your wonderful work.

Thank

P.S. is it possible to incorporate some other reader beside Adobe Reader? Any suggestion on what app that can read pdf, doc, pdb, lit, and such.
[HTC Excalibur] XJeFX:
hey NRGZ! do not give up :(

there are some bugs but the overall rom works very good!

the memory leak seems to be the storage card driver, if there is one... but at least now we know where is the cause of the leak... just take your time, but dont leave this rom, it's the coolest rom out here right now.
[HTC Excalibur] phatmanxxl:
So is this the final release?
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
Knowing nothing about the gubbins in mobile devices and, consequently, no reputation to uphold I'll ask this -

Ahem.

Is it possible that there is no memory leak? Does Windows Mobile cache files from the SD card into main memory? This would explain why free RAM drops when a card is inserted and increases when it's removed.

Hell, even if it doesn't, can't we pretend it does? :)

It's a feature. :cool:

This would allow people to get over this preoccupation of collecting RAM and evaluate the rest of this excellent ROM.

Just a thought.

Mind you, I am wasted. :p
[HTC Excalibur] 2818189:
Don't leave this ROM , we all like your ROM , don't give up
[HTC Excalibur] alienski:
I agree with the others that you shouldn't abandon this ROM NRG. Even with the memory issue this is one of the best ROMS I have ever used. The call quality is the best even in areas that have low signal levels compared to other ROMS I have used. Please continue development on this great ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
Hold-up. We appreciate what you have done. I'm sure The majority of us can't come close to doing what you have done. Either they live with the memory "problems" or they move on. The Dash is an Windows device and like your pc you have to clean it up from time to time to keep it running smooth and fast. You and others like you keep our favorite smartphone current
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
It also has the best battery life. With my heavy downloading and internet usage I use to change battery after 6 to 8 hours of use. Now my phone is off the charger from 6am to 11pm w/ 30% power left. I haven't had to swap my battery yet. One request; Is it possable to activate and customize the CMyFaves panel?
[HTC Excalibur] killa-mckilla:
i LOVE this rom

i dont really track my RAM as i havent had any problems with my programs running

im having a problem with windows 7 though. it wont let me look at \windows

says it cant be found. ..not a ROM problem though, its a windows 7 problem. my other pc is ubuntu, so that doesnt help.

and as for changing the boot/splash screens..ive asked like 4 times with no answers so im just gonna try it by reflashing the phone like it says in the wiki.

so again, awesome rom and great work. **** these guys who are rude about it. You let em know u live in vegas and could be doing way more fun things
[HTC Excalibur] lubs:
Critical people are often the loudest. In sports terms you're an unsung hero, but your work is very much appreciated. Thanks for it. I haven't flashed yet, but plan to with this new release. I don't have the time right now to play, so I waited for it to get further developed. If this is indeed the final release (:(), I guess I should get to flashing. Thanks again NRG.
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Oh god, that active sync issue again -__-

Hopefully it fixes itself again xD

Edit: It fixed itself, right as son as I posted 0__0

Good job on a great update though NRG

Edit 2: Just noticed, but I believe there is still a memory leak. Not as bad as last release, but still there xD

I just know 50709 would stay at 20-22 for as long as the phone was on, but the last two releases just slowly but surely drop over time.

I would help, but the only memory leaking I've ever helped fix was for emulators -_-

Edit 3: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU I keep forgetting to write everything down at one time. Why is the Album program the touchscreen version?
[HTC Excalibur] cire6:
i flash the latest build 52409 and its good, means if you make the final version it will be perfect, so pls sir dont stop the project.

thank you very much!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] muzip:
Thanks for your great efforts NRGZ. Including the official 5 and 6, I've tried nearly every ROM posted in these forums, but in my opinion, none of them were as responsive and stylish as this one. And responsiveness was something good indeed, I cannot return to previous roms again.

I've been using 909, and having less RAM is not a big problem for me. I don't let big apps to run in the background, this way I didn't have a single issue of an app not starting or hanging..
[HTC Excalibur] muzip:
I updated to the latest ROM (52409). I opened task manager and looked at the processes before and after inserting the SD card. There, I saw that filesys.exe uses 4.46MB without the card, and it rises up to 12.6MB after inserting the card. (SD Capacity: 2GB). Around 8 More megs are wasted.

So, as ratstrangler suggests, I also think that there is no memory leak indeed, it seems that filesystem process does some indexing for external storage and stores it inside the main memory.

Was this process behaving similarly in older ROMs?

Not likely but, there might be a parameter somewhere to turn this behavior off, or, we can switch to 1G SD for a little bit more RAM :D
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
@NRG-

Thanks man for kicking a$$ and putting these together. I loved your 'rose' and this is a huge step up. If you step off of this, I'm still going away extremely happy to be able to run your rom on this device. Just want you to know there are plenty here that simply appreciate all the work you put into building your own roms. Just brush off the complaints...if they don't like what you do, they can go build their own rom...because they all have the ability to pull that off :rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
NOOOOOO!!!

I said the memory wasn't as free as in 50709, but I also said it is still the best ROM I've ever used. **** Kavana's ROM's (no offense Kavana xD) because this is the greatest ROM development so far.
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
I am gong to have to agree that you should keep developing for the rom as time permits. Generally the folks that really ***** and moan should not be flashing their ROM's in the first place (they are expecting more than a human can deliver). I agree, I experienced a memory issue in the last version, but am anxious to give this one a try tonight.
[HTC Excalibur] skyline247:
Still a most excellent ROM

NRG, my friend. Confuscious say, "You can please SOME of the people ALL of the time, but you can't please ALL of the people SOME of the time". I took the new release on a road trip today, and frankly, to me it is just fine. I hover at right around 14.88 M free memory. BUT THAT is ALL I need. The Excalibur behaves as usual. To me it is still fast, and functions properly. I think this is the best of all of your ROM's. (meaning EnergyROM in general, not just this current release) And definately smoother and more eye pleasing, as well as functional, than any of the other ROM's on this site. As I said, it is to my particular tastes. No hard feelings to Ricky, Kavana, or Stylez. It is a matter of personal preference as I have stated before, and I think this one is tops.

I am pleased with the ROM so far, and if this is definately the final release, so be it, I am still pleased with it. I ask you though, please don't abandon this project. You are not going to be able to suit everyone's preferences, but it is still some dayum fine work. :D

So should I donate again to keep you involved in this? :D

Again thanks, to me this is a wonderful ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] mazzarin:
Just echoing everyone else and saying thanks for this great piece of work!

I agree with your sentiments that people are whining about the memory leaks too much... IE key --> o, done. What's the problem?
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
I thought that was some bloke called Lincoln.

Confucius said - "Virginity like bubble. One prick - all gone."

And others.
[HTC Excalibur] kash2k7:
can a professional help me in flashing from my SD cord plz because my fone is not syncin to pc via usb cord only via bluethoot assitance plz i want to try this rom out it seems to b really pretyy n fast from wat i hv seen.......

thanks in advance

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[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Get out of here troll.

Oh, and I've found this release does not have a memory leak, It just lost a few megs real fast, but stayed at 14ish for the rest of it's uptime.
[HTC Excalibur] dario69:
Kavana is good but not the best. His rom experiences the same memory issues. This problems existed before the EnergyRom and it has nothing to do with the custom rom. I know you know this but others might want to point blame quickly and that is just plain stupid on their part.

I keep an eye on my ram because I run emulators and even the stock rom had this problem. It just has crappy memory levels in general. but just like you said - general everyday use is just fine. 20 megs is more than enough for this type of device. I never run into problems. And your rom has the added benefit of just being kick-a$$ in general and super fast. I can take that over some crazy notion that memory consumption is better with other roms. It isn't. The Dash just sucks in that department folks. Lets get over it and just enjoy the chef's work.
[HTC Excalibur] skyline247:
Kind of thinkin' this is mr. lincolns confuscious'

He who farts in church gets his own pew.

Man who go to bed with sex in mind wake up with solution in hand.

Man who run in front of car get very very tired- -

Man who run behind car get exhausted

Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails

Woman who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat house

Smiles, We start new thread, I think not appropriate here.
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Now have 20mb free with 4 programs running and 2gb mem card

So people i seem to have found what was eating the RAM in Build 52409. Using Resco registry editor i was poking around in the system's HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft registry, i deleted the content of the "Speech" values and restarted my phone and then noticed that my RAM was up to 19.87mb with MS Voice Command and Omapclock running!!! Try it and tell me how it works out for you all:cool:
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
this is great i'll try it!!!
[HTC Excalibur] renaynikki:
first, love the rom, thanks for all your hard work.

Here are some issues I found with the 524 release:

Dial screen is missing, the nice one that has the numbers/letters at the top of the screen.

Pressing and holding the home key activates the camera instead of the voice dial/voice command.

Theres an extra link to date/time in the start menu (I just went in with total commander and deleted the extra one)

When I use nrgweather i can't change the homescreen background. If I use anything other than "default" I get the this layout does not work blah blah blah screen.
[HTC Excalibur] phuKKah:
Wow 0_0 Actually good job testing sir.
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
What did exactly deleted ? I don't know what you mean by "Speech" values.
[HTC Excalibur] thenikeman:
Ditto. I searched the registry for the word speech, and nothing returned..
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
Merged registry

my success with regaining RAM, seems to have been partly due to my modifying a merged registry of values from the most recent release and ver. 57.... i will continue to search to see if i can obtain this fix once again since it seems to not have worked after a hard reset. i will keep u posted though
[HTC Excalibur] muzip:
Found the way to adjust filesystem cache size

Upon my previous message, I searched through registry, and I've found the registry key which adjusts the amount of RAM used to cache filesystem information. I modified it, and it worked !!!

Here is the key :

HKLM\System\Storage Manager\FATFS\CacheSize

It was set at 16534, I changed it to 4096, and now filesys.exe uses 6.65MB of RAM with SD card on (Previously, 12.6MB). This means, with no external apps running, I've 17.5MB RAM available (Previously 11.5MB).

There is also another key to disable caching completely.

HKLM\System\Storage Manager\FATFS\EnableCache

This modification might result in performance loss. We should make tests with different cache size values and find out an optimum solution.
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
I've changed it to 0 ! and have after reboot 23,41M..

I checked it with my other phone were I use Kavana's rom !
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
ok look i've look in ricky's V24 rom and this HKLM\System\Storage Manager\FATFS\CacheSize is in 0, so, i think this is going to work well, i'll try it tomorrow
[HTC Excalibur] Bigmannyjr:
What is your pagepool set to?
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Hi,

On release 050709a the cache size is 0 I've seen in other posts that setting this value let's the operative system manage the cache size on the fly, instead of reserving some memory for the cache.

Enrique
[HTC Excalibur] muzip:
I searched HKLM\System\Storage Manager\FATFS\CacheSize key on google, and saw that it has been mentioned in many places to improve perfomance. (By increasing the value) But, it is also mentioned that it should be set to a value other than zero to see performance improvements. (eg, http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=82489)

I increased this value to 8192 now, I also applied the other mentioned tweak in the previous link, that is,

HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize = 4096

With these settings, filesys.exe RAM usage seems to be staying at 6.5MB, and a free RAM around 17-18MB, which is pretty decent. I'll keep these settings until I face something going wrong.
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
I can verify that the cachesize is set to 0 in all of the Rose ROMs as well, and performance in those ROMs is good.
[HTC Excalibur] jeanpiere:
I didn't modify the pagepool so its set to whatever value NRGZ set it to. the interesting thing is after playing around in the registry and running sktools and PointUi's Home 2 ( oddly enough), then restarting i got the increase in RAM to 21.3 mb, now rarely does my RAM drop to less than 16mb!! But i see the guys have found the exact registry key to modify, and i can confirm performance actually improved for me. This ROM is now trully the fastest of the lot!!!
[HTC Excalibur] Empel1960:
Well, I found a little more information regarding this issue, according to Microsoft this key shouldn't be used on windows mobile 5 or later, check this page

CacheSize: REG_DWORD

Obsolete

This value is obsolete.

Do not use in Windows CE 5.0 and later.

Do not use in Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later.

Replace with FatCacheSize or DataCacheSize.

Indicates the size of the disk cache, in number of sectors.

Regards,

Enrique
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
As other members pointed out... it looks like we can change the filesystem cache size to get more RAM. This will be implemented in my next release to see how it behaves.

I'll try. You'd think by now I'd have a thick skin when it comes to this stuff after how many ROMs I made and support.. but sometimes it just gets to me.

Don't worry about it.. As long as I still have a Dash, I'll be involved in it :)

:)

Yeah I'm aware of that stuff.. but was too lazy to make another ROM. It was already 2 AM and had to go to sleep... Will release another one soon. I promise it wont as long as it did for the last one :)
[HTC Excalibur] thenikeman:
Has anyone noticed w/ the latest ROM release running SmartTool kit (rc 08 or 09), that if you are in Control Panel > General > and set On Homescreen = SmartToolkit Start Menu, that when you are back on the homescreen and hit Start, it pops up the Recent Programs page...but if you press All Programs on that screen, that SmartTool kits start menu then pops up? It didn't behave this way on the prior releases, so not for sure what changed..I just don't care for the right soft button Task settings...would rather just have the default contact, etc.

Thanks NRG, look forward to a new release!!
[HTC Excalibur] yipcanjo:
Keep up the great work, NRGZ28. This is *truly* an incredible ROM... especially considering the age of these phones.

I don't know what to make of this, but my current ROM (050709) consistently has less available "memory" than my last ROM (NRGv1.4), but performs better anyhow. With the v1.4 ROM, my phone used to begin having issues when the memory would dip below 8 - 9 megs available. With the 050709 ROM, however, it's snappy all the time -- even with 4 or 5 megs available. Seems to me that despite the available memory, the EnergyROM just handles memory better!

The EnergyROM series is great. Thanks for the awesome work! :)
[HTC Excalibur] sphinx780:
Can't say I'd be any different if I had put such time and effort into developing these too. People that complain tend to be the most vocal. Being in sales I get to fight that beast every day...so I try to focus on the appreciative and keep that in mind when I'm dealing with someone who is never happy with any of the work I do. Some days it works, some days it gets to me...that's what a nice brew is for...:cool:
[HTC Excalibur] alienski:
I would like to ask if anyone else is having trouble with the IE 5 in the most recent version of the ROM 52409. I find I still have trouble connecting to mini.opera.com specifically.
[HTC Excalibur] Ghostwarrior73:
Great Job on the rom NRG
[HTC Excalibur] newbietruly:
Appreciation

I don't have experience with the other versions other than the 50909 and 50709a but I couldn't agree more with yipcanjo. It runs smooth and fast no matter what!

I will try the recommended regedit later when I get home and update on the experience.

I'd ask for everyone to provide constructive inputs instead of throwing outrageous demands to all the respectable chefs here including NRGZ28. If you don't like what you use, then please by all means go back to the very original ROM that came with your phone. Better yet, buy yourself a HTC Snap (Maple). :rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] skyler17:
Yes! for some bizarre reason in all versions of this rom I am unable to access mini.opera.com too. Despite this, it is still the best rom though!
[HTC Excalibur] SRgustavo:
anybody have a windows live messenger like the one on the others rom? i've tryed 4 or 5 versions and they didn't work .thanks
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
NRGZ, great rom. Works fine for me!

Two little questions:

Is it possible with the next release to take out in the email-menu ; Delete All and Mark All as Read,

Put in the Keyboard light function.

I use all the futures of the phone for my work, no bugs find yet !
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I cant take that out.. I use that quite bit on my phone :P

And what do u mean by the keyboard light ?!
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
In the latest Kavana rom you can choose in Power Management the Keyboard time out on battery and AC.
[HTC Excalibur] drifterrolly:
question:

how come when i use HTCSMS on cHome it wont display the message preview, or maybe its because im using smartoolkit as well?